NEWS Ӏ JUNE 2021
ESTA AWARDS 2021 WINNERS
The 2021 ESTA Awards ceremony was held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic on April 22. The ‘Telescopic, lifting capacity up to
120t’ award went to Wagenborg Nedlift for the replacement of a sludge filter press inside a building in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. The 10t press was positioned on a platform in a process building. A Hoeflon C30 and Palfinger PK 27002 were set up in the small processing hall and the press was lifted from the platform and placed onto a transport vehicle. Sarens was the winner of the ‘Lattice boom crane’ category for using its SGC-250 to lift a steel band, weighing a total of 575t with its tackle, for the construction of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in the UK. Mammoet Europe won the award for
the ‘Telescopic, lifting capacity more than 120t’ crane category, for a project involving two Demag AC 700s and a Liebherr LTM 1750-9.1. The cranes were used for the installation of a steel bridge structure stretching the entire length of a skate park and fitting it into an existing 70m tall tower, all with a mid-air handover of the load. The steel bridges were lifted by two cranes in tandem, supported by a third crane in a different position on the other side of the jobsite. Mammoet Europe also won the
‘Innovation: End User’ award for the development of the Focus30, a pedestal crane in the 2,500t class that can be assembled vertically.
Wagenborg Nedlift used a Hoeflon C30 and Palfinger PK 27002 for the replacement of a sludge filter press.
The ‘Innovation: Manufacturer’ award
went to Liebherr Nenzing for the 220t LR 1200.1 unplugged and the 250t LR 1250.1 unplugged, claimed as the world's first battery-powered crawler crane. Liebherr-Werk Ehingen was the winner of the ‘Safety’ award for the WindSpeed load chart function, designed to improve safety and reduce the time mobile cranes are winded off. For the transport awards, the ‘over-
120t gross combined weight category’ was won by Viktor Baumann for transporting a 50m heat exchanger with a centre of gravity 3.9m above the trailer. A 503t combination was formed, 78m long with one truck. This increased to 108m with four more trucks for the 12% gradients. Laso Transportes took the ‘under
120t gross combined weight category’ award for transporting 12 67m-long wind turbine blades on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Negotiation of tricky tunnels and tight mountain turns called for specialised blade lifting trailers. The ‘SPMT’ award went to Wagenborg
Nedlift, who used two sets of 12 axle lines of SPMT with powerpacks to move a 650t block measuring 22 x 16 x 14m out of the factory–where side clearance was just 100 mm–to the yard outside as part of the construction of a cargo vessel. Mammoet Europe’s third award of the
year was for ‘Combined Techniques’. A customised Mammoet DHS-500 special lifting system was used to remove three steam generators and a pressuriser as part of a nuclear power station decommissioning project in Germany.
Laso Transportes moved 12 67m-long wind turbine blades in Madeira. CRANES TODAY 21
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